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After Tragedy, an Indianapolis Theater Stages a Comeback Bryan Fonseca, the founder of a notable company, died of complications from Covid-19. But at the theater named for him, the show goes on. Latrice Young in the premiere of “Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson)” at the Fonseca Theater Company in Indianapolis.Credit.Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times May 24, 2021 INDIANAPOLIS On a breezy, 80-degree evening, the sun still in the sky, the actor Chandra Lynch walked to the center of the Fonseca Theater Company’s outdoor stage-in-the-round. At her back was a semicircle of oversized blocks, each with printed words that together formed the sentence “Blackness iz not a monolith.” ....
When The Phoenix Theatre Burned The House Down The late Bryan Fonseca s playhouse once staged a show so controversial, police were stationed outside and a lawyer waited in the wings. December 17, 2020 The 1996 staging of Love! Valour! Compassion! that prompted protests, but went on to become the Phoenix’s longest-running show.Photo courtesy of IUPUI University Library When Ricardo Melendez looked out from his dressing room window on opening night of Love! Valour! Compassion! at the Phoenix Theatre on February 15, 1996, he saw a line of people that stretched around the corner of the building, which was then a former church off Mass Ave. “I wasn’t sure if they were protesters, or people waiting to get in,” says Melendez, a star of the play one of the city’s first with nudity. ....